James 4:9

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Cross References (23)

  • 2 Corinthians 7:10–11 (18)

    Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

  • Matthew 5:4 (18)

    Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

  • Luke 6:25 (13)

    Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

  • Proverbs 14:13 (12)

    Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

  • James 5:1–2 (10)

    Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

  • Psalms 119:67 (8)

    Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

  • Ezekiel 16:63 (7)

    so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth be

  • Ecclesiastes 7:2–6 (7)

    It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living

  • Jeremiah 31:18–20 (7)

    I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu

  • Revelation 18:7–8 (6)

    As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart s

  • Ezekiel 7:16 (5)

    The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

  • Job 30:31 (4)

    My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  • Luke 16:25 (4)

    But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received b

  • Lamentations 5:15 (4)

    Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

  • Zechariah 12:10–14 (4)

    Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will lo

  • Psalms 126:5–6 (4)

    Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

  • Isaiah 22:12–13 (4)

    On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

  • Luke 6:21 (3)

    Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:2 (3)

    I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

  • Jeremiah 31:13 (3)

    Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give the

  • Jeremiah 31:9 (3)

    They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters,

  • Psalms 119:71 (3)

    It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

  • Psalms 119:136 (2)

    My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.